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Page 195 Chapter LXIII. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

RICHMOND, July 23, 1861.

Major H. L. CLAY, Lynchburg:

Send the Eleventh [Fourteenth] and Twelfth [Fiftheenth] (A. V. Brumby and T. W. Thomas) Georgia Regiments to Millborough via Stantion. Orders will await them at Millborough.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant-General, &c.

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RICHMOND, July 23, 1861.

Major H. L. CLAY, Lynchburg:

Send T. W. Thomas' Georgia regiment to Manassas instead of to Millborough, as directed this morning.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant-General, &c.

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RICHMOND, July 23, 1861.

Major H. L. CLAY, Lynchburg:

Colonel R. Hatton's Tennessee regiment, armed with rifles and fully supplied with ammunition, passed Wytheville last night for Lynchburg. Push it forward to Stauton, as directed on the 21st instant.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant-General.

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WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Richmond, July 23, 1861.

His Excellency Henry T. CLARK,

Governor of Noth Carolina:

SIR: A letter received from Brigadier-General Huger, commanding at Norfolk, states that some weeks since he wrote to the Executive of North Carolina requesting that two regiments of the State might be kept at Garysburg and sent to him when wanted. He now desires these regiments be sent to Suffolk, where accommodations have been provided for a large force, and I have the honor to request that the necessary orders to that end may be given by Your Excellency.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War.

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MEMPHIS, July 23, 1861.

Honorable L. P. WALKER:

Five regiments already ordered to Lynchburg and three remaining at Harrisville [sic]. Have ordered 1,000,000 cartridges to Richmond. Glorious result at Manassas.

ISHAM G. HARRIS.

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RICHMOND, July 23, 1861.

Governor I. G. HARRIS,

Nashville, Tenn.:

In addition to the three regiments you have sent into Virginia under General S. R. Anderson, I must beg you to send three additional regiments at once. The crisis demands it.

L. P. WALKER.

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